The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 2, 1916, Page 1

Hh ann.~~~—~ SWATCH FOR IT: W =~ ay week, and the novel we will give you next w next week. It is a gripp’ SHETL © VOLUME SE THURSDAY, MARCH 1916. ONE CENT TTLE, WASH., THRASH Hl GILL DEVELOPMENTS OF THE DAY IN SEATTLE MAYORALTY CAMPAIGN GGriffiths accepts Gill's challenge to public Says he will mee® him “anywhere and anytime later than Saturday night @ “Ted” Griffiths Lake to warn him to mother or I'll thrash you @ Ole Hanson, taking the stump at two meetings. Says: “F Gill hobbled? to side. Last Saturday got loose from his toe-we from the stage at the Lit interrupts Gill's. speech »p lying about fa r Griffiths, speaks r two years we've had Hi By nature he's a pacer, going from side at the Liberty theatre, he s. The Gill that talked theatre last Saturday was the real Gill re you going to let go, unrebuked, that attack upon decency and the home? Are you going to reward with the highest office in the city’s gift a man who attacks a good woman with the vomit of his fi Ithy, lecherous mind?” @ United States District Attorney Clay Allen and Prosecuting Attorney A. H. Lundin charge Gill's police department has not co-operated with them in the cution of vice cases. erty prose- A stocky, light-haired boy in a tan flannel shirt made his way thru the crowd t jammed the entrance to oda Fellows’ hall at Green Lake, Wednesday night Hi Gill, candidate for mayor, was scheduled to speck! there at 8 o'clock | The boy took a seat in the second row | The crowd cheered and applauded when Bed on the platform » “Green Lake's friend,” he was called by the chairman "Wm, The audience was friendly. The people Jatighed ait applauded as GrMtasher his rival tandidate for the mayoralty The boy in the second row shifted uneasily, and leaned forward. The mayor was telling about Griffiths’ record, own, in connection with playgrounds He vigorously that he was responsible for the placing of a stable ffiths had « close to and his] demed | ear the} He said Gr would be Miller playfield. only because it property Gill Orders Boy to Sit Down jumped to * the boy ur garbled some ACCEPTS second rov his feet The boy in the “That's not true—it’s another ing emotion. “I’ve taken in y haven't been telling the facts “Sit down!” snapped the mayor Some members of the crowd repeated Gill’s command uted, cho with Eo Raeieasn oun va bjected to this stable) home and Griffiths hasn’t. of his own) guch a thing an issue. “DEFT TO PAARL PPAR LPP PL DPD DAP PAP DPD PP PPPS WELL be right back at you on Monday with the opening of the third in the novel-a-week series. have developed the novel-a-week habit, you won’t want to miss “The Ranch at the Wolverine,’ ng novel of range life in northern Idaho. If you purchased the novel you are read eek, it would cost you three dollars at the book store for the two books. And you get them for the price of a subscription. : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEws : } z NEWS : } ThAIN® <TaNne Now that you ’ by B. M. Bower, ng this Griffiths Accepts Challenge to Meet Hi Gill _ in Debate Any Time or Place This Week ANDDATES SON "The Seattle Star pax EDITION Residence of H. C. Gill, AMIS. speeches, Mayor Gill has been telling audiences that ‘Griffiths “is a millionaire.” By these false statements, Gill is trying to win sympathy. He is trying |@ poor, penniless, hard-struggling fellow who is having the time of his life to pay his rent and grocery bill. Above is a picture of Gill's residence. |tentious home than Griffiths has. The Star does not publish this picture because it thinks Hi Gill is unfit to be mayor bécause he has a fine It is not the home of a “millionaire.” to make his audiences think he’s But it is a much more pre- ‘The picture is published merely to show the caliber of the man who tries to make HODGE’S MEN RAID BATHS; GET rT LIQUOR Scott Malone led a party of sheriff's deputies who raided the Imperial Turkish baths, on WHEN GILL BUTTED ON HIS POLICE CH N JULY Austin 1914, the police, under the then chief of IN IEF f polfee, GILL SOBS ABOUT POVERTY; "HERE'S HIS HOME! | should “SENATE ARGUES — WILSON’S STAND ON ARMED SHIPS Gore Demands Information Regarding President’s Reported Willingness to Plunge U. S. Into War. WASHINGTON, March 2.—The conflict between con¢ gress and President Wilson over the German situation broke out today in the senate, when Chairman Stone of the foreign committee interrupted discussion of the Shields waterpower bill to make a statement about the Gore resolution warning Ameri Following Stone come to a vote senat ns from armed ships Sen. I imme reed that the question d that the president ess of party. needed the regar¢ Stone a « president do not agree on the subject of armed He the president's attitude thus “The ie disposed To Gore's statement of the presi- |aent position toward war, Stone said President Wilson never stated to me that he believed in any way, to support the contention that merchantmen have the right to for defensive purposes. “What defense is, he does not say, and | do not know. or entertained the thought, that “if a submarine should at- | War between the U. S. and the tack a merchantman and Amer- (central powers would be desirable jor result in our good.” | “Why did not you ask him about the truth of this report?” retorted Gore. I had no invitation to see him nor any reason to believe he would tell me if I asked,” Stone replied. If the report is untrue, of course every one is glad.” The president insists on an out-and-out vote. He expects icans should suffer, he would hold the offending govern. ment strictly to account, and if Germany persisted in its course, he would call the mat- ter to the attention of con- gress, the war-making body. My viewpoint is that if a mer chantman is armed and transport ing munitions, other contraband or \troops, it is a warship. | | Demands He Be Backed this to be opposed to a w om ing. Stone deciared it essential that the president should have a thoro| Meanwhile, diplomatic neg tas fons «/er submarine warfare are knowledge that congress is behind | K. Griffiths, made several arrests in a house of fll: |} factory tandstill, for the administra. , m if he is to make a satisfactor Others applauded. Grit "Sa ee cA fcae Fourth eve, between Pike eng fame. The raid was conducted under a warrant aeration of problems with Germany | fon holds {t cannot proceed until The boy was Austin E. Griffiths, Jr., 20 years old, fresh-| Union for contraband WITHIN AN HOUR, MAYOR GILL CAME INTO THE |Sh4 Great Britain the grapple between the executive man at the university. “Ted,” his friends call him | Nquor Thursday. CHIEF'S OFFICE, WHITE WITH RAGE, AND CURSING. HE The senate did not act on the |and legislative branches is settled, “I won't sit down if you tell any more lies about fathct | Eighty bottles of beer w | DEMANDED THE DISMISSAL OF THE OFFIC S WHO MAL armed ship issue, after debate last-| Conferences between the prests wont st > ? onfiscated. Eight hundred | 5 STS \ nd mother,” the boy said. “I'll thrash you.” Ee caatick titre down THE ARRESTS jing an hour and 40 minutes dent and congressional leaders and Then he k his seat, a little confused vet 1S has gee h lb AED wii ine Griffiths curtly told him to “shut up”; that if any one went it Sen John Sharp Williams de-|meetings of the foreign and rules | hen he took ht at, 2 . GRIFFITHS — Thorne’s whe Fg m4 + eg dl would be he (Griffiths), and not the men who acted under orders | fended the president in the tnter- committees were slated today ta mayor found his tongue and proc eeded Green Lake, 8 p. m.; Young : e by made ” 3 and cules & wach hed GE Mik at Ue of thine cicuak situation ana | sen- determine the result of the fight. the dr atic nterruption snapped the tension Men's Business club, at Plaint of a special investigator, “oye ole ators of bringing the ation to The issue is whether congress he dramati m f Pr exchange, Second and Union, who purchased liquor in the Griffiths tells about this in a statement today on page 6 ine oe at ent shall vote at all upon warning res the meeting * i 6:30 p. m Bricklayers’ bath house Wednesday night, Th d in July, 1914, and it was in July, 1914, that Grif “Presid fi Wilson,” he ssid olutions. After the close of the lad edged his way u union, 1905 Fifth ave., 9 p. it is said, paying $1.00 for a fiths first tendered his resignation to Mayor Gill been brought to this situation by| The administration is trying to ns 4 circle of newspapermen GILL — Ward's hall, George a a ak aS ae Le w Gill is saying he knew nothing, and knows nothing now, |genators who have represented |force a record vote, holding such @ “Yo on’t sa ing about what ha 1 here town : lo 8 * ne conditions “down there”—that Griffiths had a free hand as |the pleas of foreign capitals showdown” is essential that Ger- 1" bis lg “4 “T4 “e he ead. But understand, | | OTTO A. CASE—Phalen’s hall, Prosecutor Lundin intends to | fef—that Griffiths must be the “higher-up” referred to in the Rebukes the Senate many may know the president's will you?” he asked : lost my hea P 5 : - fc as Columbia. ovise apa against the pro- elix Crane case “Let us see now whether seD-| hands are upheld in his stand for don't you? He has been telling lies abou oor een per re eR Nike dl Migedtgrlinadhncrtes When Griffiths tendered his resignation, in July, Gill did not |ators will stand against the presi-| American rights. I wish you wouldn't say anything about it w uu write In a statement t hall accept it. Griffiths made no public outcry about Gill’s interference, | dent on a principle of int pranticnsl | Opposition today to a vote is up the meeting.” Green Lake, Mayor Gill We Any GUST HAS KICK NOW but perhaps Gill was afraid he would law five centuries old. The law 18 lwidespread p r V fP night challenged hie rival, Austin | toning Pye fle ineyt plain, “Yet Germany wishes to] ‘The house is the main battle Says He Has Star Editor on Verge of Pen E. Griffiths, to debate INST “DRY LAW) .u(iTiiitts,finatly contented, but insisted that the resignation change it, and make us @ party to | eround the evawor said he warted to give the. cits morning, Griffith AG iS | t take effect In September, especially because he had to leave |the crime, while for us to re The senate is disposed to await yxeech, the mayor said he want giv A accepted the challenge to the East, where his father was on his deatht j nize Germany's claim would be un-/+n¢ house's action an: administratior at time between » is being illegally re- Keep this in mind—a large portion of the vice cases in the neutral ; acasw datuhan: hat Now “Watchfully Walting” ad “put the tor of Star on the verge! now 1 i t hasty because the two years have been handled by Gill's law partners and inti- , =e tw apie = ‘ Thee President Wilson will make no ¢ ary ¢ th x Crar ‘ nd rid h € ui i] 4 ¢ selling associates. | — " further positive move to gain a 4 ; ya Pred she feed : an ue and liar | Dreamin nk for Monda falas uneania at anit “Friday” Frye, Gill's law partner, is one. Frank Hammond is {Position = showdown" from congress in the Pil sk mre Opry SP @ P re the nig 2 the ws. Guet Christen-| another, Gill's former law associate, Walter Metzenbaum, is an- Ben. Sore, Serer a hand tn German‘ stuition that he Griftit to debate serv days for having| other arming rereuith a denunciation of | Imstead, according tc a high au He charged ¢ h about his tax levy votes} Monda the last liquor to sell at the Whitehouse | The public did not know Griffiths was going to resign, but if aeherioan MU micro with |thority, he has decided to leave it it for the ystem free} but want earlie hotel, filed a petition for habeas| these men knew, and the news was quickly spread in the under. Aho belligerents to congress and the country, de- ‘ thiet M ey ae 1 the “ can ret an Of: | corpus supert court Th ursaday world, pending upon the country to swing ti F Griffiths w ick u pus in superior cou i jondholde F nay : ht : ? when I y unity to report ore the elec FELIX CRANE KNEW, TOO. I aires? 43 said, “that the Congress to his way of thinking, of a chief as I thought he was when tion, instead of leaving It 1 AND FELIX CRANE DID NOT BEGIN TO OPERATE UNTIL |) 1) 8° P\S. ole ‘inion dollars’, In other words, he has determine re gee morning paper, which 1s it's GERMAN SEAPLANE GRIFFITHS LEFT FOR THE EAST, AND DURING GRIFFITHS? | boldors of the hill blll Wiiike (ed to apply “watchful waiting” to After the Green Lake m Mayor Gill w heduled | orgar ABSENCE FROM THE CITY. to have us insure their cause the situation, with congress and ‘ a ee the Universit libr Griffiths’ acceptance of Gill's de-| RAID KILLS BABY When Griffiths returned, Gill again induced him to stay on “Our whole welfare should not|the country fighting it ont cee ‘ : t Poli i bate challenge \ | the job a little longer. veg } : oa head J aa eth fh. [de placed in the hands of any one| He believes the country will M if roid der he jal circum- | - Felix Crane knew Griffiths would resign. Some other gra deap American who might ship /bring congress around, Griffiths Says, ‘Ravings ¢ olitica f eanian st shees of thie campaign | LONDON, March Flying low| ers off fallen women knew it hey made their plans accordingly jig eg eee poe | » referred there e threat from young Griffiths at the should not appear on the same |in a heavy mist, a German seaplane | Crane wae indicted after Griffiths left. So was Paul Schu ‘Sen. Borah asked Gore if the L N N ! see Du appe : 8 - ual ‘ and others len pt e meetit platform with Mayor Gill ast night raided the southeast cons man, the ex-policeman, and ot president would refuse to act in ] COL H GH BOY upposed to be an athlete han who maligns men f England, dropped four explosive Crane was convicted on two chan the first, that he grafted | event 100 Americans were killed Tr : rie In public matters affecting died, and wrecked the rear MONTHS AFTER GRIFFITHS RE SSIGNE D. The se ond charge sae tata neat > ma peecl the whole city persona! consid. of several houses against Crane alleged that he grafted on October 1, 1914, or one Gore replied that passage of the _ Beet ! ther] ecdons wust be eet salee month before Griffiths resigned, AND THREE MONTHS AFTER | yecoiution would prevent just such|, Dudley Coddington, 18, Lincoln ard the Gil | accept a challenge to speak | HE GAVE GILL HIS RUSIGNA TION a slaughter by the refusal to grant | ish school student and son of Ar % to the recognized rules of chiv barking on armed merchantmen st, has withdrawn from school Gill left after hurling a series of questions at Griffith airy the man challenged | A GIRL OF ELEVEN. Says Principle Is Same Thursday to enlist in the British Griffiths answered fight a duel to the death He insisted that the principle is | &™™yY an service. at Victoria for , ns answ 4 ight a erseas service. It’s unpleasant to have to read the anyine of a political] the right to name time, | the same as the state department's | OVerseas service tees ite he them il DID dismi and weapons | SAN BERNARDINO, March refusal to issue passports to Amer : Yaa he ony wage Frases Th i helped recall] _ | will speak anywhere, 2—A seven-pound baby was T {cans to go to belligerent coun-}] FAMOUS EXILE IS t cat as he claim cy aC eipec ecant d 0. Simona Abila, a tries, ~ ~ , P time, not later than Saturday born today to Simona 5 BACK FROM SIBERIA’ t irs before But il no conception of what] pight child of 11, Surgeons consider Gore denied, however, that con. ACG M ¢ SKA Jern—of civi pirit.” The challenge to speak | the case a phenomenon, Si- - | gress would exceed its powers in ae G i eran : op | Geaantand sliak Monday | mona is four feet tall. She OREGON CITY, Ore, March |for his two sisters and mother were] {gsuing stich a warning PETROGRAD, March 2.— eel ge 3 trar made to play into weighs 80 ponuds 1 indere of |itthe house with him | “My resolution,” he sald, “ts| Mme, Catherine Breshkovsky. eas ace pth fog tilvle 4 2—Raving about mu Captured last night by a ruse,|pased upon the report that »si-| Russian revolutionist, who, in U. S. AND COUNTY PR piel A eI iy A by : the past and future, William | Klinkman said he knew who ha@/qdent Wilson is determined to go to| 1907, took active part in the (2 pes gen lier Agel Wee ote | WAR ON WASTE” IS | Klinkman, a powerful young |committed the Hill murders in 1911,/ war if necessary and that certain! American woman suffrage cam: ) pabshagene shige! flies! WOMEN’S SLOGAN] fatmer, 28 years old, is pacing [only a quarter of a mile from his| senators believed our entrance into] paign, has returned from Sibe- ipa es be ' here today, after holding at bay Officers today are investigating | most incredible report, | admit, but, paving withdrawn its decree of ] aa tration failed The housekeepers of America for two days officers who (to learn if the young maniac could} with every circumstance pojuting life exile. e famous revolue FidayAh : reais 1 either government officia GHT FOR MURDER are mobilizing for a war on sought to arrest him on an in- /have been responsible for the crime. |to its truth tionist is feeble and almost am with the prosecuting attorne . The Housekeepers’ | ganity warrant, | In June, 1911, William Hill, his | Discuss War Rumors blind g ‘ ny U. B District Attorney ( {PA, Idaho, March 2 . alliance, of Washington, D, C Armed with a rifle and a revolver | wife and two children were found| “If Americans embark on armed | se HD arte r aud nai ; of farmer are toda pursuing with Flora McDonald Thompson, Klinkman kept officers from enter-|in the bedroom of their home at} ships to go to their death and | 7 - casi vanpiiaminsinatin ou a sens ad antorcing. the Jaws relative to viel @enest Hardenbur eged to} president, is directing a cam- |ing his house at Ardenwald |Ardenwald, brutally murdesed with |lead the republic into war, would | WEATHER FORECAST snare se His Pen ils rar have murdered the husband of his] paign to help mothers and | The deputy sheriffs feared to use jan ax. ‘Their murderer was never/{t be a misfortune or an of Rain tonight and Friday. pe ' valde wife, nine miles from here, homersakers learn economy, violence in taking the young man,! captured, tyranny to deny them pass —— (Continued on page 5) te